The visiting lecturer Dr. Hyun Jeong-im from Sogang University (Seoul, South Korea) will deliver public lecture “The third way of doing politics: Pro-democracy movements in South Korea from 1960s to nowadays” for all University’s students on October 06. The lecture will be held at the History Hall of the Rector’s Office (Donelaičio 58). Lecture’s time: […]

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The Centre for Asian Studies invites to the International Symposium Japanology within Asian Studies in Lithuania: Historical Perspective and Present Situation, which will take part on November 3-4 in Kaunas, at the Historical Presidential Palace (Vilniaus g. 33, Kaunas). The Symposium is dedicated to discuss and to evaluate the situation of Asian Studies in Lithuania. […]

The visiting lecturer Dr. Hyun Jeong-im from Sogang University (Seoul, South Korea) is visiting VMU since September 01, 2011. She will deliver a compulsory course Case of Corea: Democracy and Totalitarism in East Asia for the students of East Asian studies. The lectures will start at September 12, and will continue for one academic year. […]

New website “Japonų kalba VDU” for learning Japanese language from Lithuanian resources has been launched! Sponsor – Japan Foundation. Accessible through the following links: japonųkalba.vdu.lt/ japonukalba.vdu.lt/ Facebook: Japonų kalba VDU Website is designed for self-studies. Includes materials required for preparing for the JLPT-5 and JLPT-4. Now only several lessons added but by the end of […]

Centre for Asian Studies invites to Korean days festival “Korea comes to Lithuania”, which will be held on July 9-11 in different parts of Lithuania. During the festival the citizens and guests of Kaunas, Vilnius and Druskininkai will have an opportunity to become acquainted with exotic culture of Korea The dynamic and colorful concert of […]

The Centre for Asian Studies has started implementing the EU funded project “Feasibility Study on the Transnational Development of Asian Studies at VMU”. The main goal of the project is to prepare a feasibility study for VMU Joint Degree Program in the field of East Asian Studies (political science) and to sign the Memorandums of […]

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In March (2011), the Centre for Asian Studies successfully finished the research project “Japan as Represented in the European Media: Its Analytical Methodolgies and Theories – in Comparison with Korean Cases”, supported by Japan Foundation. As result, the was published. This selection is based mainly on the results of the organised by the Centre for […]

The exhibition of Lithuanian books on East Asia is opened from April 7, 2011 at Vytautas Magnus University, near the V. Biržiška reading hall (K. Donelaičio g. 52, second floor). The books on Japan, China, Korea and Vietnam, published in Lithuania during 20-21st centuries, are exhibited. The books of Lithuanian authors on the East Asian […]